Cupin Variants as a Macromolecular Ligand Library for Stereoselective Michael Addition of Nitroalkanes
Nobutaka Fujieda1, Haruna Ichihashi2, Miho Yuasa1
1Department of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
Abstract:
Cupin superfamily proteins (TM1459) work as a macromolecular ligand framework with a double-stranded β-barrel structure ligating to a Cu ion through histidine side chains. Variegating the first coordination sphere of TM1459 revealed that H52A and H54A/H58A mutants effectively catalyzed the diastereo- and enantioselective Michael addition reaction of nitroalkanes to an α,β-unsaturated ketone. Moreover, calculated substrate docking signified C106N and F104W single-point mutations, which inverted the diastereoselectivity of H52A and further improved the stereoselectivity of H54A/H58A, respectively.
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